Resilient tire.



E. E. BULLARD.

RESILIENT TIRE.

APPLICATION FILED APR-19. I918.

L295,266e Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

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E. E. BULLARD.

RESILI-ENT TIRE.

APPLICATION, FILED APR-19,1918.

Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

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Y v I m r v are snares manna entree- EDWIN E. IBULLARD, F SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS.

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' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, rate;

To all whom it may concern.- Be it known that I, EDWIN E. BULL Rma citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Sangamon and State of Illinois, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Resilient Tires, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to resilient tires for automobiles and other vehicles, and has for one of its objects to provide a tire of this ldnd that will not be affected by puncture or than is used at present. It is also the aim of the invention to simplify the construction of the tire, to adapt it to be used on the ordinary clencher rim now on the market, to employ resilient reinforcing elements which will not cut through the tread of the tire,

and to retain the tire against slipping around on the rim.

The invention will be first hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawings, which constitute part of this specification, and then more specifically defined in the claims at the end of the description.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views Figure 1 is a section transversely through a tire constructed substantially in accordance with this invention and mounted on an ordinary clencher rim which is also shown in section, the section being taken through one of the interlocking lugs and recesses for preventing the tire from slipping around on the rim.

Fig. 2 is a detailed perspective view of the reinforcing means which is embedded in the body of the tire. Fig. 3 is a broken side elevation of a portion of the tire, and Y Fig. 4 is a fragmentary side elevation of the t1r e on the rim, a portion of the latter being broken away to show one of the recesses in the same to receive a lug on the tire.

. The body 1 of the tire is made substantially like the outer casing of a pneumatic tire except that resilient reinforcing elements are embedded in said body to provide a yielding springy support thereto in lieu silient reinforcingelements embedded in the v tire serve to spread apart the edges of the same so as to maintain said ribs or beads in engagement with said flanges.

he reinforcing element consists of one or more strips 5 of resilient metal of suitable shape, size and temper to afl'ord the desired support to the tire, said strips having outwardly turned portions 6 to reinforce the ribs or beads 2, and continuous rings 9 arranged in the angles between said outwardly turned ortions and the main loops 7 of the strips or binding all of said loops and outwardly turned portions together to conformto the shape of the tire. A plurality of the loops 7 andprojections 6 of the resilient reinforcin member are preferably made of a single strlp 5 which is bent laterally at the ends of the outwardly turned portions 6 to connect with the next ones, as at 8, best shown in Fig. 2. Of course, a single strip 5 orany number of such strips may be employed in making the reinforcament' for the entire tire. The stripmaybe any shape in cross section, but it is preferable to .make it flat substantially as i-llustratedgto avoid havone side or edge of the tire. It will be understood, however, that the lugs may be omitted from the tire or other means employed for preventing the tire from slipping or creeping on the rim without departing ing said strip cut through the body of the from the invention in so far as it relates to the reinforced U-shaped tire with the ribs or beads at its edges for engaging the flanges on the clencher The clencher rim 4 may be of any well-known construction, that illustrated by way of example having one of its flanges, 13, detachably mounted on one flat edge 12 of said rim and retained in place 7 W by a ring 14 fastened to said edge 12 of the mm b bolts 15. When the ring 14 and detacha 1e flange 13 are removed the tire may be slip ed on or off, the lugslO eing capable of (yiel ing slightly so as to ride over the rim an drop into the recesses 11 therein.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letvters Patent of the Uni-ted States is Wardly turned extensions of said reinforcing means arranged in the beads, and rings arranged in the angles between said reinforcing means which is embedded in the body of,

the tire and the extensions which are arranged in the beads.

2. The combination with a tire having beads formed alon its edges to engage the,

flanges of a clenc er rim, of resilient reinforcing means comprising metal strips formed into loops embedded in the body of the tire and havmg outwardly bent portions at the ends of said loops extending into said beads, and rings also embedded ln'the'tire and arranged in I the angles between said the tire and having outwardly bent portions at the ends of said loops extending into said beads, and connections between said outwardly bent portions of adjacent loops.

4. 'lhe' combination with a tire having beads formed along its edges to engage the flanges of a clencher rim, of resilient reinforcin means comprising metal strips formed into loops embedded in the body of the tire and having outwardly bent portions at the ends of said loops extending into said beads, and connections between the ,outwardl bent portion at one end of each loop and t e corresponding portion of the next loop at one side thereof, and between the outwardly bent portion at the other end of .said loop and the corresponding portion of the next loop at the other side thereof.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

EDWIN. E. BULLARD. 

